Senate roll call 527 · 46th Congress · Feb 26, 1881
To amend H.R. 7104 by increasing the appropriation for the improvement of lower willamette and columbia rivers from portland oregon to the sea, including bar at
On Feb 26, 1881, the Senate voted 20–25 (HR 7104). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 10–17, Republicans 10–7, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 17 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 20
- No
- 25
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Feb 26, 1881
By party
- Democrats10 yes · 17 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans10 yes · 7 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted yes
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted no
- John Alexander Logan R-IL voted no
- John James Ingalls R-KS voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted yes
- Alvin Saunders R-NE voted no
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY voted no
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
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